In the earlier post I discussed merely the Bayesian camp so today we will right that wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frequentist statistics is helpful in that it enables to arive at general conclusions about a test group in a controlled environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can frequentist statistics be used to make decisions? It can and is being done for example in computer science viz. a-b testing for example in intelligent interaction design<\/em> which is a discipline aimed at improving user experience vis-a-vis electronic interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this particular example Bayes would not have sufficed, at least not in its normal form<\/em>. A applied methodology can be imagined in which Bayesian strength<\/em> is determined before and after a use-case for two or multiple interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The research<\/em> question would be slightly different from that of the frequentist scientists viz. frequentists<\/em> have a straightforward method in testing whether there is a significant<\/em> difference in user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since Bayesian inference is designed to arrive at degree of belief<\/em> with regard to prior probability it is more applicable to individual use cases rather than coming to conclusions for a predetermined test group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hypothesis<\/strong>: frequentist statistics is used to draw general conclusions from carefully selected test groups, bayesian statistics is used to draw case-specific conclusions from historical data and particular context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the earlier post I discussed merely the Bayesian camp so today we will right that wrong. Frequentist statistics is helpful in that it enables to arive at general conclusions about a test group in a controlled environment. Can frequentist statistics be used to make decisions? It can and is being done for example in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28,81,80],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramadan","tag-bayes","tag-frequentists","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}